The heritage curator Marie-Françoise Limon-Bonnet has just been appointed to the Directorate of the National Archives on May 1, 2025. Born in 1967 in Strasbourg, Marie-Françoise Limon-Bonnet has graduated from the National School of Charters since 1991. She defended a thesis on the notaries at the Châtelet de Paris under the reign of Louis XIV. In 1992, she left the National Heritage Institute as a curator in the Archives specialty.
Having carried out a journey in the history of law at the University of Paris-ii-Assas, she specializes in particular in the legal issues linked to the archives. She began her career in the National Archives, within the private archives section, and then became a deputy director of studies at the National Heritage Institute. From 2000 to 2002, she directed the departmental archives of the Somme, before joining the Directorate of the Archives of France.
She is also the author of several works, of which 22 minutes of history. Proceedings of the notaries of Paris, 16th-XXth centurypublished in 2012 by Evergreen editions, and taught at Paris Saclay University. Since 2018, she chairs the School of Charters.
“At the head of the national archives, she will pilot major real estate sites, on the sites of Paris and Pierrefitte-sur-Seine, will make the rise of electronic archiving one of the priorities of her mandate and will pursue the policy of wide opening of archives on the city, in an approach that is both scientific, cultural and citizen. »» is it indicated in the announcement press release.
She succeeds Bruno Ricard, appointed last February head of the inter -ministerial service of the Archives of France.
Located in the Marais district, the National Archives, created under the French Revolution, preserve and communicate to the public the archives of the State since the 7th century, as well as the archives of Parisian notaries and the private archives of national interest today, they are deployed on two sites: Paris and Pierrefitte-sur-Seine. At the heart of the Parisian site, a museum was created under the Second Empire. The archives regularly organize historical, societal or heritage exhibitions.
